When Matt Diaz was only 16 years old he weighed 495 pounds. Incredibly, over the last six years, he’s managed to lose a whopping 270 pounds which has gotten him a lot of positive attention. However, despite the compliments Matt’s been hiding something that he wants to share with the world. We all have secrets and insecurities and what Matt did is one of the bravest gestures the internet has ever seen.

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“Body image isn’t something that just goes away when you start getting attention,” Matt said in a previous video.

“I’m really scared to put this up,” he says in this emotional video, “I’m scared people won’t find me attractive anymore. I’m scared that all the nice messages will stop. I feel this all the time.”

“I think it’s important for me to share this with you guys … because this is who I am. I can’t preach body positivity and hide who I am,” he says. “I wanna control and like about myself the things that I can. But the things that you can’t fix you have to make peace with.”

“I want to be proud of who I am and I want all of you to be proud of who you are and part of that is not hiding it.”